back to the Publication Alerts menuBenoit, Kenneth, Michael Laver, Christine Arnold, Paul Pennings, and Madeleine O. Hosli. "Measuring National Delegate Positions at the Convention on the Future of Europe Using Computerized Word Scoring." European Union Politics 6, no. 3 (2005): 291-313.
Using their Wordscores system ( http://www.wordscores.com), the authors assess thousands of documents submitted as part of the Convention on the Future of Europe. Their system "proves broadly successful in reconstructing the map of national party preferences for and against a more centralized and more powerful Europe as expressed through the Convention texts" (p. 292).